3229 Powelton Avenue
3321-31:
“red brick Victorian
double houses with wood porches; 'segmental windows at first and second floors;
pressed brick rosettes in facade between third floor windows; each house has
two gabled wood dormers, except for 3329-31, where each half has one dormer.
Probably by designed G.W. and W.D. Hewitt.”
(Inventory of Buildings in Powelton from the application submitted to the
National Register of Historic Places, 1985)
History of 3229
Powelton Avenue
1891 Directory: Elizabeth Newcomet, widow of
Henry W., a physician
The
1887 directory lists her at 1902 Tioga.
1895 Directory: Elizabeth Newcomet, widow of
Henry W.
Horace E. Newcomet, student
William S., physician
William
S. Newcomet, lived at 3501 Baring St. from 1899
until his death in 1960.
See his biography and some family history there.
1900:
Elisabeth Newcomet 49 Widow with 3
children; born in Missouri, father born in Pa., mother in N.Y.; owner, free of
a mortgage
Edith Newcomet 19 Father born
in Pa., mother in Mo.
Elizabeth
died in 1907.
1906: Frank McCulley Hardt; National Bank of N.
Liberties, Philadelphia, Pa.
(Catalogue
of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. 1906)
<
3231 Powelton 3221-3227 Powelton >
Revised 6/29/2022